Abstract: The current study examined the association between adolescents’ social goal orientations (i. e., what they want to achieve or avoid in social interactions with their peers) and their externalizing and prosocial ...
Zusammenfassung. In einer experimentellen Studie wurde der Einfluß von Priming auf Hilfeverhalten untersucht. Mit einer Satzkonstruktionsaufgabe wurde in einer Gruppe das Konzept Altruismus, in einer anderen das Konzept Egoismus und in einer dritten ...
Abstract. The bystander effect reveals that people are less likely to help a person in need when others are present. We examined the impact of priming the concept of responsibility on the bystander effect in a field ...
The present research reveals that people's implicit theories of civil courage and helping behavior are clearly distinguishable. In three studies, it was shown that situations requiring civil courage rather than helping assistance were perceived more ...
German Adaption of the Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior in Sport Scale (PABSS) – Assessment of Construct Validity and Measurement Invariance Via Exploratory Structural Equation ModelsAbstract. In this study (N = 759), the German version of the Prosocial ...
German version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (T4-16 - SDQ): Psychometric quality of the teacher version for preschoolersAbstract. Findings concerning the psychometric quality of the German version of the teacher-SDQ (T4-16 - SDQ) are ...
Abstract. Previous research has shown that people of low subjective socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely to experience compassion and provide help to others than people of high SES. However, low subjective SES also appears to be ...
Abstract. As an entertainment technology, video games are a popular social activity that can allow for multiple players to cooperatively engage on-screen challenges. Emerging research has found that when people play together, the resulting ...
Abstract. The aim of our study was to test the effectiveness of the prosocial goals intervention in adolescents. We tested its effects on prosocial behavior as assessed by the decomposed game (DG) and the Efforts ...
This research studies the effects of a friendly and cooperative game-program on child socio-affective relations and group cooperation capacity, between ages 6 and 7. For this purpose 125 experimental subjects were compared with 53 control subjects, using ...
The Influence of Past and Present Experiences With Peer Relations in School on Perceived Social SupportAbstract. In this article we focus on the question of how peer-group experiences at school influence overall perceived support in the social context. ...
Emotion Regulation Strategies in Preschool ChildrenAbstract. A wide range of emotion regulation strategies is considered a good resource to successfully address developmental challenges and possible critical life events. In the present study, important ...
Recognising a victim in need: The effect of situational cues and priming on the identification of need for helpAbstract. An experimental study investigated the joint influence of priming and situational cues on the perceived neediness of a target. A ...
Promoting social-emotional competence in preschool: Evaluation of a preventive behavioral training programThis paper reports results of an evaluation study on effectiveness of a social-emotional competence training. Preschool children (n = 127) took part ...
Leisure activities, resilience and mental stress in adolescentsAbstract.Objective: To date, the factors contributing to emergence of resilience in different stages of adolescence have yet to be sufficiently ...
Abstract. Crowdfunding enables fundraising of various ventures by collecting money from several donors. We argue that the inclusion of prosocial language contributes to success in this new domain of resource acquisition. In Study 1, we ...
Abstract. The current study focuses on a sample of low- to middle-income school-age Latina girls and their parents and examines how children’s distress proneness interacts with parental empathic accuracy ...
Abstract: The present study adapts and investigates the psychometric properties of the German version of the Prosocial Behavioral Intentions Scale (PBIS). The sample included 507 participants. Incongruent with the original study, the PBIS showed low ...
Abstract. Prosocial behavior is intended to benefit others rather than oneself and is positively linked to personality traits such as Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility, and usually negatively to the Dark Triad traits (i.e., Machiavellianism, narcissism, ...
Abstract. Interactive narratives offer interesting opportunities for the study of the impact of media on behavior. A growing amount of research on games advocating social change, including those focusing on interactive narratives, has ...